Morning Roundup: Around the Web with Cardboard Man!
Bloomberg helps me guess what's going to happen on the market (three weeks ago we said the bottom was around 8500!): Today it seems, the bloodletting will continue. World markets are down, along with US Index futures.
Talking Points Memo gets on the McCain is a squirrel bandwagon. More ACORN love...
The New York Times says Paulson made those banks an offer they couldn't refuse.
Firedoglake's Attaturk takes a look at Rush Limbaugh's mild racism.
The Guardian seems to think Steve Jobs should not have messed with things yesterday. Seems his fire sale on Macbooks has caused world markets to clamor for more free money and to start talking smack about a recesession.
Polls! MyDD's Todd Beeton has the numbers and McCain probably wishes they were better, because now he's going to be forced into wearing his Weather Undergroung T-Shirt to tonight's debate. Chris Bowers has more numbers over at Open Left.
As global markets slide into negative territory, the Washington Times marches into the light reporting that all's clear on the Western front. (Not.)
Alternet's Liliana Segura gets bullet-pointy with McCain's racism.
The Christian Science Monitor has a think-piece on the end of free-market ideology in the United States.
Crooks and Liars's Logan Murphy asks: If you don't want polar bears listed as endangered and you wear a polar bear brooch, are you trying to remind people that you couldn't care less about polar bears?
Video: Remember that old GOP message discipline? Gone!!! (Via Daily Kos)
Ever wonder why teens post nude pictures of themselves online? The pervs at ABC News did...
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- October 15, 2008
Could it be? Could it? The fundamentals? Unsound?
The Reuters/Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, nosedived to 89.7 in October from 96.3 percent in September as seven of the 10 measures of public opinion used in the index dropped.
The rating stopped short of the record low of 87.7 in March but showed Americans are feeling dramatically more gloomy about the direction of the country and their personal finances.
Ratings for President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress dropped sharply. A record low of 21 percent in a Zogby poll gave positive marks to Bush's job performance, while the approval rating for Congress dipped to 10 percent -- just above its all-time low.
It is always about the money.
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By Kemo SabeOctober 15, 2008 - 7:44am